Immigration Blog

An overly creative immigration lawyer, seeing the years-long backlog for EB-5 visas for the Chinese, has suggested using the immigration policy of a tiny island nation, Grenada, to maneuver around U.S. immigration rules.

The House of Delegates of the American Bar Association (ABA) — the quasi-official body for lawyers throughout the United States — has passed a resolution affirming its belief that "[i]mmigration status alone shouldn't bar lawyers from practice."

According to the ABA Journal:

The media missed a major "pay-to-stay" scandal involving H-2B visas.

Today the Federal Register published a notice from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ending the Central American Minors (CAM) program.

The latest report on criminal aliens in the federal system from the Department of Justice reveals that there were approximately 42,000 non-citizens incarcerated in the Bureau of Prisons system as of June 31, 2017, representing 22 percent of the total federal prison population.

It's time to end DACA. Adults who were brought here illegally by their parents at very young ages (toddlers, not teenagers) are indeed good candidates for amnesty – they've grown up here and formed their identities as Americans.  

After years of writing about the numerous and substantial frauds in the EB-5 program, I now can report that two people are going to jail for immigrant investor program crimes.

It might be useful to step back a minute and think about the various illegal alien subpopulations and consider how we allocate our limited enforcement resources regarding their control. All should be escorted out of the country, of course, but some do us more harm than others.

College Park, Md., a reliably liberal bastion and home to the main campus of the University of Maryland just outside the Washington, D.C., Beltway, apparently is mulling over enfranchising illegal aliens, according to the Baltimore Sun.

In Vanity Fair this week, T.A. Frank published "The Democratic Case for Restricting Immigration", which isn't actually all that different from the Republican case.